2002 Protege LX Build

SharkTank

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2002 Mazda Protege LX 2.0
Just picked up a pretty rough 02 Protege! It's got some nasty rust but drives nice and should be salvageable. Originally wanted this to be a beater/daily but now I want to make this a track car/sunday driver for as little money as possible. So I'm going with an initial budget of 1000 dollars. I picked up the Protege for 600 so I'm taking 400 dollars wiggle room to fix rust and get the car driving nice. If I can get the car in good driving order for 1000 or less, I will bump my budget to 1500 to accommodate for some mods to test at the track. This way, I can drive the car for the harsh winter, then see how the car holds up, then decide whether I will mod it. I will upload videos to my car channel so you can keep up with this budget build.


YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCth5QbNHkNyiohi8tpflePw

Any opinions on typical issues to address on these cars? Anything I should be looking for?

Link to images:

http://imgur.com/a/uWBDr
 
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